Custom file name download in selenium






















I was asked if 1 second was enough time and mostly it is, but in case you need to wait more than that you could change the above code to this:. I've come up with a different solution. So that, that file is going to be the only file in that directory. You can fiddle with the sleep time and add a TimeoutException as well, as you see fit. Here is the code sample I used to download pdf with a specific file name. First you need to configure chrome webdriver with required options. Then after clicking the button to open pdf popup window , call a function to wait for download to finish and rename the downloaded file.

I am using the following function. Using dmb 's trick. Ive just made one correction: after. Otherwise, the line below will try to rename a. Here is a browser-agnostic solution that waits for the download to finish then returns the file name. Caveat: this will not work if you have more than one thread or process downloading files to the same directory at the same time.

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Selenium give file name when downloading Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 10 months ago. Active 3 months ago. Viewed 59k times. This is my code: Is there anyway that I can give the file being downloaded a specific name? Improve this question. Why not rename it after the download Using the Shutil module? Since the filname always have a random name, I want to name it when I am downloading it.

So it will be easier to locate it later. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. If yest which package? I need to import it accordingly. You need the below 3 imports. The chrome entry was helpful, but "except: pass" is a horrible idea. In incognito mode at least on the latest chrome, it spits out an error: selenium. JavascriptException: Message: javascript error: Cannot read property 'shadowRoot' of null It can't find the percentage tag it seems, and fails with no proper error message due to your overly broad except case.

Thanks for bringing up the behavior in the latest chrome version. There might be changes to the behavior of the browser, I will take a look into this. This is still the most efficient answer for me with a few tweaks though If you want the webdriver to always wait until the download is complete, you can remove the wait time and the if block — kcEmenike.

Show 5 more comments. Note: borrowed methods from google searches may have errors. Sudharsana Rajasekaran 3 3 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. The problem with above code is that filename var gets its value before the download is finished. This will create two type of errors. If the download directory was empty, then filename will be empty and hence shutil. If the directory was not empty, filename will get the name of last file downloaded before current file which is still downloading and shutil.

You need to implement a method to wait for download to finish. It could be useful to also compare the file with current timestamp datetime. Show 2 more comments. Hi, dmb and Kreuni, I would like to add this snippet into my code with python3. Can you please tell me which modification I would need to do to make it work on macOS?

In our last post, we have discussed in details about how you can upload files using webdriver. In this post, we are going to learn about how we can download files from a web browser using Selenium.

If you run your script in a different browser, then the file download behaviour is different. The main problem to deal such cases is when you click the download link or button that time a new window will be opening which is a window based application and as you know that by using selenium webdriver we can not handle windows based application using Selenium.

For different browser, the settings for download files vary which like downloading the file default or some time it displays a system pop-up. To deal with the different file format download in Firefox browser we can take help of the firefox profile. Before we start learning how we can handle the download file scenarios, let us understand the different MIME types.

This is used to classify the file types on the internet. On the internet the different servers and browsers which all the list of MIME types, So they transfer the same file over internet in the same way and type, no matter what operating system they are working in. A MIME has two parts, where one part represents the type and the other part represents subtype.

Let us take an example for a Microsoft word file where the type is application and the subtype is msword. You can get all the complete list of MIME type here. One thing you may be confused that you are coming to this post for how to download files using selenium webdriver then why we are discussing MIME types, let me told you we had discussed these things because we are going to use the MIME type in our selenium automation script firefox profile.

We Can perform the file download by following the below steps, and those steps are:. If you are run the above script then you can find out the required file is downloaded in the specified location.



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